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Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 - Plans move to Rust, with help from AI (www.theregister.com)
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Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 23 points 2 days ago

Yeah…

Human mistakes tend to 1) look like mistakes, and 2) are surrounded by lots of hints that the author had trouble with that section of code.

AI mistakes tend to 1) look like regular code, and 2) look just as confident and effort-ful as the rest of the code.